2005: Established Holy Cross Monastery in Niagara Falls, New York, under the Orthodox Church in America.

He later left the Church and joined the schismatic Holy Orthodox Church in North America.

2010 February 22: Left HOCNA and joined the "True Russian Orthodox Church", under Metropolitan Damascene of Moscow.

2010 June 12: Archimandrite Nicholas was consecrated as Bishop of Cincinnati by Metropolitan Damascene of Moscow, Archbishop John of Zaporizhzya and Little Rus', and Bishop Andrian of Chisinau and Moldova as head of the North American Vicariate of the "True Russian Orthodox Church."

2012 April 26: Bishop Nicholas is accepted into the Russian True-Orthodox Church under Metropolitan Alexey (Bondarenko) of Moscow.